Apple & Samsung’s Next Gen Smartphones Could Be Made From 100% Recyclable Materials



Our phones have more recycled materials than ever, but the industry is still far from making phones entirely from recycled parts.

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This Post Has 27 Comments

  1. nexus Ebtuoy

    100% propaganda MUMBO JUMBO, there ISN'T SUCH THING as 100% recycle PLASTICS, research acknowledging the big SCAM that is the so called recycling industry, a sustainable pollution SCAM!!!

  2. hajizx1

    Samsung can make it easier to replace their batteries

  3. Elijah Dela Cruz

    Yeah, but do Apple and Samsung make their phones and laptops easily repairable? Nope. Do they support third party repair stores? Nope. Do they provide easy access to replacement parts like what Valve/Steam and recently HP has been doing?? NOPE! DOES APPLE BRICK YOUR IPHONE IF YOU REPLACE THE CAMERA OR FACE ID WITH A GENUINE APPLE PART??? YES! What’s the point of Apple supporting iPhones for 5 years but making them very hard and costly to repair??

  4. Sweet Dae

    For me the right to repair for the phone. What i mean there are no restriction whenever i replace my battery or screen so i can use it longer than buying new one.

  5. David Lopez

    To be fair, Apple has been recycling their phone designs for years. 😂

  6. Drlogan Drlee

    The priority should not be about increasing recyclable components, but convincing consumers that it’s not necessary to upgrade their phone every 2-3 years. I’ve been using the same phone for about 10 years now and the only thing to stop people keeping theirs longer is when Apple or Samsung prevents their aged products from installing the latest OS, which then stops users from using certain apps. Similar to the profit driven auto industry. It’d be nigh on impossible to tell companies to stop encouraging consumers to upgrade regularly. Perhaps law maker needs to put a heafty “green” tax on new consumer goods, so as to encourage people to either buy used or hold on to theirs for much longer.

  7. Targetlockon

    Race to free marketing and not truly economicly true to earth friendly

  8. Cam

    0:10 about as good as you are at reading a teleprompter

  9. NorbJorb

    I have a recycled phone. You can too. Just don’t buy a phone every year.

  10. ShowAndTell

    Status sysmbols used to consist of gem studded everyday things. Now its latched onto virtue signaling. Vegan leather and recycled phones. Nothings fundamentally changed, just as useless.

  11. Paul Harrison

    So called recycling creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It would be better is all phones received the 9 years of security updates that the iPhone 5S has received so far. It would be better is all phones less than 9 years old still received security updates and so did not need to be recycled.

  12. Mark :-P

    Looking at Apple and Samsung phone prices, recycled phones are expensive!

  13. Din Wu

    More wokeness. This lady’s eyes look evil.

  14. Emmanuel K

    So they're trying to make you pay 1k for recycled trash.

  15. Apple: How about we just recycle the design and called it environmental friendly strategy.

    Samsung: Good idea.

  16. Christopher Dean

    Here’s a crazy idea: Race to be the first to stop making people buy a new phone every two years, when the one they have right now could easily last
    the rest of their lives. Instead of “recycled phone” because you “love the environment,” try no-phone, and fvck off.

  17. Dan Kelley

    I have an idea! Go back to cell phone that you can replace the battery instead of junking the phone. Oh wait!, then people could use their phone a lot longer & Apples revenue would take a hit! Planned obsolescence is always in their favor, not the consumers!

  18. Smarter Than You

    The best way to be environmentally conscious is to keep a phone at least 4 years and preferably 6. Therefor apple is the greenest as they support older phones for longer

  19. Sudarshan Jha

    Apple is way ahead in making recycled phone. iPhone 14 & 14 plus is best example.

  20. iApple OS

    Apple has been making recycled iPhones forever. Look at the 12 pro vs 14 pro

  21. vicdez

    How about they race to make the best reasonably priced flagships bwaaahahahahahq

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